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Australian government resorts to anti-African witch hunt Friday, October 12, 2007 : With a federal election imminent and opinion polls predicting a rout for the government, Australian Prime Minister John Howard is once again playing the race card, this time directed against Sudanese and other African immigrants. As he has done repeatedly over the past decade, Howard is deliberately encouraging divisive racist sentiment to divert attention from his own government’s responsibility for slashing of essential services and deepening social inequality....
Posted: Fri, Oct 12, 2007 8:01am PDT
Latino Congreso sets 2008 agenda Friday, October 12, 2007 : LOS ANGELES — Some 2,000 Latino leaders and activists from throughout the United States met here Oct. 5-9 to map an action plan and social justice program for the 2008 elections. Their goal is to bring out 10 million Latino voters who can play a decisive role in the presidential and congressional elections....
Posted: Fri, Oct 12, 2007 7:59am PDT
Republican Group's Event Plans Under Fire Friday, October 12, 2007 : Plans for an Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week to be hosted by the Berkeley College Republicans on campus later this month are prompting opposition from some students and local groups....
Posted: Fri, Oct 12, 2007 7:49am PDT
Tortured Confessions -- The San Francisco 8 Originally From New America Media
Thursday, October 11, 2007 : The San Francisco 8, are currently fighting conspiracy and murder charges in the case of a San Francisco police officer slain in 1971. Courts originally threw the case out after it was acknowledged that some of the defendants were tortured in 1975....
Posted: Fri, Oct 12, 2007 7:39am PDT
Defense Motion on Torture Statements Denied in SF 8 Case In front of a packed courtroom, SF 8 presiding
Judge Moscone denied a significant defense motion
asking that statements made under torture by
Harold Taylor in 1973 be precluded from consideration in this case....
Posted: Thu, Oct 11, 2007 10:55pm PDT
Howard Calls for 'New Reconciliation' Referendum for Indigenous People SYDNEY: The Australian prime minister, John Howard, proposed a referendum Thursday to change the country's Constitution to recognize the role of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders in Australia's history....
Posted: Thu, Oct 11, 2007 4:46pm PDT
Rogo Livorno. Racism in Italy kills the Roma People Newsweek has published an article about the persecution the Italian authorities (with the complicity of the media) is carrying out against the Roma and Sinti people. Gruppo EveryOne, Opera Nomadi, Circolo Pasolini and a few other groups are leading a difficult campaign for the lives and rights of these minorities, and against the increasing racism that is ruthlessly killing innocent men, women and children....
Posted: Thu, Oct 11, 2007 2:01pm PDT
How The Muslim Community Has Been Impacted By Global Terrorism SJSU Student Union University Room
One Washington Square, San Jose State University
San Jose, CA 95112
http://www.union.sjsu.edu/su/su.html...
Event Date: Tue, Nov 13, 2007 6:00pm PST
Posted: Thu, Oct 11, 2007 12:37pm PDT
Today-Fri. Cal. Student Ass. Community Colleges Black Caucus Meet Phone and
Berkeley City College (Room 451 B)
2050 Center, Berkeley CA....
Event Date: Fri, Oct 12, 2007 11:00am PDT
Posted: Thu, Oct 11, 2007 11:00am PDT
Today-Fri. Cal. Student Ass. Community Colleges Black Caucus Meet Phone and
Berkeley City College (Room 451 B)
2050 Center, Berkeley CA....
Event Date: Thu, Oct 11, 2007 12:00pm PDT
Posted: Thu, Oct 11, 2007 10:58am PDT
Mayor Gavin Newsom is a hypocrite if indeed there was one linked to Parcel A Mayor Gavin Newsom does not have the guts - as any man would do - to sit down and have a meaningful dialog about Parcel A. He loves to lock the door to Room 200 at City Hall and then behind closed doors make pretend that he is some hero. Of all the Mayors that City Hall has had - the one that stands out as a SISSY is Mayor Gavin Newsom. Calling Minister Christopher Muhammad a hypocrite without justification - is uncalled for - and can only come only from a Racist like Mayor Gavin Newsom....
Posted: Thu, Oct 11, 2007 8:21am PDT
In the Face of Shootings, D.C. Residents Need More than Hope Originally From New America Media
Thursday, October 11, 2007 : The office of The Washington Informer is not far from the site where DeOnte Rawlings was slain. The paper's publisher, Denise Rolark Barnes, is a veteran journalist with a keen sense of the social fault lines that sometimes, but not always, separate communities from each other....
Posted: Thu, Oct 11, 2007 7:51am PDT
Black Content Under Pressure -- Publisher Challenged by Editors Murder Originally From New America Media
Thursday, October 11, 2007 : Over two months after the murder of Chauncey Bailey the paper he guided is struggling to maintain it’s place as the premier African-American newspaper in the Bay Area while battling financial difficulties and continuing physical threats....
Posted: Thu, Oct 11, 2007 7:49am PDT
The Perpetuation of Racial Bias in Our “Post-Racism” Age Thursday, October 11, 2007 : After reading Stephen Steinberg’s Turning Back: The Retreat from Racial Justice in American Thought and Policy (Beacon, 1995), I could not understand why he was not more famous. After all, Steinberg’s book so discredited the empirical basis of William Julius Wilson’s prominent work, The Declining Significance of Race, that Wilson publicly conceded his faulty analysis....
Posted: Thu, Oct 11, 2007 7:21am PDT
Shock at noose left on NY campus Wednesday, October 10, 2007 : A hangman's noose found on the door of a black professor sparks anger at New York's Columbia university....
Posted: Wed, Oct 10, 2007 6:53am PDT
Bayview Hunters Point residents and supporters present SFUSD Resolution to Mayor Newsom Bayview Hunters Point residents joined forces with Citywide supporters to present Mayor Gavin Newsom, the Board of Education Resolution linked to Lennar and Parcel A. It is not as if Mayor Gavin Newsom did not read the Resolution - but to re-enforce the unanimous vote of the Board of Education - to help our children and address the adverse impacts - imposed on our children by Lennar BVHP LLC. A Press Conference was held on October 9, 2007 at 12 noon, on the steps of City Hall in San Francisco...
Posted: Tue, Oct 9, 2007 9:15pm PDT
Why Clinton Trumps Obama with Black Voters Originally From New America Media
Tuesday, October 9, 2007 :New America Media, Commentary, Earl Ofari Hutchinson , Posted: Oct 09, 2007 Editor's Note: Recent polls show Sen. Hillary Clinton some 33 points ahead of Sen. Barack Obama in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination. Analysts say this lead comes from her strength on key issues, but commentator Earl Ofari Hutchinson says it also has to do with her straight talk on racism and her ability to win....
Posted: Tue, Oct 9, 2007 7:41am PDT
Bay Area-Wide Planning Meeting to RESIST "Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week" 
UC Berkeley- Wheeler, Rm. 123...
Event Date: Wed, Oct 10, 2007 8:00pm PDT
Posted: Mon, Oct 8, 2007 10:04pm PDT
More madness in Kentucky: Black farmer's foreclosed land used for Klan meetings He is the last black farmer in three Kentucky counties, and, at 80 years of age, Harry Young has already had to bear more than most. His farm, land, which had been in the Young family for more than one hundred years, was sold out from under him by the Farm Services Administration in what remains a hotly contested sale. Now it is reportedly being used for Klu Klux Klan meetings....
Posted: Mon, Oct 8, 2007 8:51pm PDT
Rescheduled: Ward Churchill Speaks at UC-Davis 
event seems to have been rescheduled: http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/10/31/18457386.php
The speech is at University of California, Davis.
in room: Chem 194...
Event Date: Thu, Nov 1, 2007 8:00pm PDT
Posted: Mon, Oct 8, 2007 5:42pm PDT
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